To help you answer this complex question, Macrofocus releases City'O'Scope, a free interactive tool for visually analyzing prices and earnings around the world. City'O'Scope is available at no charge for the Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems at:

http://www.macrofocus.com/cityoscope/

Using data surveyed by the UBS Economic Research department, City'O'Scope allows users to easily analyze, compare, query, and explore prices and earnings indicators of 58 cities around the world.

City'O'Scope is a highly interactive visualization tool with the following key characteristics:

- it shows the big picture by providing an overview of the essential relationships between cities
- it encourages the explorative discovery of interesting features and unexpected patterns
- it avoids the feeling of being lost in details by embedding them in the overall context
- it supports our way of thinking and working by taking advantage of the human perceptual abilities

Macrofocus GmbH specializes in solutions that help people such as analysts, managers, knowledge workers, or consumers to understand and manage the growing amounts of complex information that they are faced with. Macrofocus develops interactive visualization systems that enable faster and better-informed decisions, and support the human thinking process. Macrofocus GmbH is a privately held company based in Zurich, Switzerland.